December 2016 Blog Posts (245)

Ryusho sent me a lovely long letter, partly written on a bread bag, and enclosed a big batch of ephemera like the cigar wrappers and beautiful gold ribbon above, along with some hand-painted tissue paper. And I love the seals on the backs of his envelopes! Thanks Ryusho. I will certainly make use of all of this.…

Amy is blazing new trails with her sewing machine and teensy little scraps of fabric, ribbon, and this one has a key attached to it! I love your work, Amy. Thanks!

So, the Artist in Seine cannot do Add 'n Pass because he never uses a French ENVELOPE you see?

He collected a stack of pages sent to him by various, and then had the gang in London help him

"add", then threatened Alan Brignull at…

Yes, another beautifully drawn envelope: Kunst Post...Art of the Elephant!

Save the Elephants, a mail art project for Anita...…

Who? Who? You ask? It's KUNST ART!

Who makes an envelope a work of art? Anita in Germany!

Two have arrived in Greece, this is Number One with a wise ol' owl,

and jumpin' MomKat:…

Received these 4 cards…

A nice collaged postcard from Miquel Jimenez.



Richard sent back the add to and return I'd sent him.



I probably should have…

Love this!  Thanks so…

Bananas, square, triangle, etc., coming from Ana in Brazil!

Very large envelope full of color, and inside...scanner bananers:…

Well, at least to blog a few bananas ...

Fun AUTUMN card from Ti Ar in France,with a few bananas

for Banana Appreciation Day, Nov 18!

'Liking the owl very much, too:…

Oh to fly away with that DADA fish from Keith Chambers :-)

Sorry, the Queen-'o-Blogs is way behind and mail art is arriving

and accumulating, waiting patiently to be posted here...soon?

Thank you to all who sent:

To be blogged:

1.  Artist in Seine, zebras and AddPass mania

2.  Aroca in Spain, watercolor…

Personally being born under the veggie star sign of radish, I always knew that I was half above ground.  You my not know it, but the veggie star sign of radish has no particularly bright stars, and its four brightest stars being less than magnitude. And I don't just make…

Toni goes still further with less.  And there it is, right in front for the whole world to see.  The secret to a long life; Frankfurters in eight minutes or less.  Surely fuel for a long life.…

These came separately in the mail more than a week apart. How lucky am I to get double-whammied??! The first one (top) is a painted envelope that Ruud has apparently been saving in his mail launcher for several years. "Sometimes it takes time for a piece to start traveling," Ruud notes. I have a large stash of envelope and postcard pieces I have…